The 27th of January was the anniversary of Donald Trump signing Executive Order 13769, also known as Muslim Ban 1.0. This triggered massive airport protests and urban marches a year ago. This year in DC, one march gathered at the White House to oppose Trump's current Muslim Ban, and was met there by a much larger march from the WWII Memorial demanding Trump be impeached.Both marched together to Trump Hotel, where they joined with WERK for Peace's  "intersectional" GLBTQ dance party.

On the way to Trump Hotel, the two-component march stopped on Penn Ave just past the Wilson Building to shout at Customs and Border Patrol's offices in the Ronald Reagan Building further back. CBP had been the orginal objective of the march against the Muslim Ban. It was the Muslim Ban protesters who led the combined march from the White House, but Trump Hotel may simply have been deemed to be one of the few buildings associated with Trump and his evil works that would actually have Trump supporters inside on a Saturday.

WERK for Peace marched north, not south at the conclusion of their rally, but one of their keynote speakers in front of Trump Hotel was from the march against the Muslim Ban. He noted that Queer and Trans Muslims were affected like all others by Trump's ban, and said "we will never stop fighting the man who owns that tacky hotel." Each mention of Trump's Muslim Ban or the hotel brought a chorus of booing from the crowd. Three different marches had been joined into a single whole by the menace of their combined enemy, Donald Trump.

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